Why Tears Are Salt
Tears are made to wash the and there is no poison in them. If you take the right quantity of ordinary table-salt, and dissolve it in perfectly pure water, you will get a solution almost the same as tears; but water without any salt in it wijl not do for tears. Pure water is found to injure all delicate living things, like the front of the eyeball, and it is not natural to the body. If one were to fast and drink perfectly pure water for even a few days one would become ill. The natural kind of water in which every part of the body lives its life is salt water.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21974, 24 December 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)
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